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by beefman 4y ago
Great question but some unfortunate errors here. > Before the advent of temperament systems, D-sharp and E-flat were two different notes. D# and Eb were defined as elements of a temperament system, namely meantone temperament. > My tr
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On the Expressivity of Markov Reward(deepmind.com)
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https://archive.ph/gbPvx
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Jonathan Blow on Societal Collapse (2019)(gist.github.com)
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The Alberta Plan for AI Research(arxiv.org)
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by beefman 4y ago
You're referring to Vienna. It's broadly part of Europe and narrowly functions as its own city-state. Its intermediate allegiance may be less important. It's long had outsized musical influence but was only the world leader i
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Throughout history, the leading empire or nation (by GDP) has always had the best universities. Also the best music industry, the best visual arts, etc. Ok, that's just what GDP measures, so it's a bit tautological. (Or is it?) It
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Y Combinator Top Private Companies 2022(ycombinator.com)
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So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem)
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There is no better general-purpose 2-D map projection without interruptions than Kavrayskiy VII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavrayskiy_VII_projection The AuthaGraph has been mentioned several times before on HN. This
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Optimal Stopping(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart (2013)(youtube.com)
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An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm (2003) https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
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https://archive.ph/5HJal
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Verifiable Quantum Advantage Without Structure(arxiv.org)
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Earth Mover's Distance(en.wikipedia.org)
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Local Interstellar Cloud(en.wikipedia.org)
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Transformer Language Model Mathematical Definition(apronus.com)
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Project home page: https://www.subtext-lang.org/
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No Ifs, Ands, or Buts (2015)(vimeo.com)
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New study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception(discover.lanl.gov)
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Chinese molten-salt reactor cleared for start up(world-nuclear-news.org)
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Cognitive training: A field in search of a phenomenon(journals.sagepub.com)
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Vogtle 3 Gets NRC Approval to Begin Operation in Milestone for Nuclear Industry(powermag.com)
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Faked Crystallography(science.org)
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The first private mission to Mars(qz.com)
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At the risk of beating a dead horse, I think the tricky thing in evaluating comment voting is this: It's easy to look at a thread and see that junk comments were downvoted, and conclude it's working. It's harder to know which
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Lots of great stuff in the pipeline right now, including for obesity. The difficulty of progress depends on what you try to treat. Otherwise healthy people get pain and swelling. Otherwise healthy people get HIV (my dad is on the patent for
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Ibuprofen is a true miracle drug. The team that discovered it routinely tested candidates on themselves. This wasn't uncommon in medicinal chemistry. My dad and his colleagues did it at Merck in the '70s. In one case, he and his l
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Oh, there were flame wars. I don't remember any with individual responses this brief though! I don't remember brevity of any kind being an issue. Flame wars sucked, but I'm beginning to think it's a case of 'cutting

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